Eva Birkenstock
09.11. โ€” 14.11.2024
โ†’ Bucharest



Eva Birkenstock is director of the Ludwig Forum in Aachen. Trained as an art historian and cultural
anthropologist, she has become internationally known for presenting a wide-ranging and challenging program of exhibitions, solo debuts, performances, and collaborative research-based projects.

In 2008 she took over the artistic direction of the Halle fur Kunst in Luneburg together with Hannes
Loichinger, and from 2010 to 2016 she was curator at the Kunsthaus Bregenz. As part of an
international curatorial exchange, she spent 2014 as a fellow in New York City; there she directed the
exhibition spaces of the Goethe-Institut, Ludlow 38. From 2016 to 2021 she was director of the
Kunstverein fir die Rheinlande und Westfalen, and from 2015 to 2019 she directed the independent
performance project of Liste Art Fair, Basel. Since October 2021, she has been director of the Ludwig
Forum, where she has exhibited Rosemary Mayer, Belkis Ayon, Kerstin Bratsch, and Keren Cytter,
among others.